অকেজো
okejo
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষণ; করা-সহ কার্যকারক রূপ / adjective with causative construction
Lexical status
Established adjective; incapacity, object-uselessness and moral devaluation must not be collapsed.
Recorded forms
অকেজো করসে
Research meaning — English
Being made incapacitated or unable to function. The speaker attributes this change in himself to a recent ban (sorcery) event.
Research meaning — Bengali
নিজেকে কাজ করার ক্ষমতা হারানো বা নিষ্ক্রিয় করে দেওয়ার বর্ণনা; বক্তা নিজের অবস্থাটিকে সম্প্রতি বান মারার ফল বলে জানান।
What this research adds
Adds a lexical incapacity term that was present only inside an S12 quotation. It differs from feeling worthless and from calling another person socially useless.
Mental health connection
Signals a self-reported functional difficulty whose form, duration and cause would require clarification.
Safe messaging for media
- Use the expression in its stated context; do not present it as a diagnosis or universal translation.
- Avoid describing a person by a stigmatizing term unless the person self-identifies that way and the wording is necessary.
- For suicide-related coverage, avoid method detail, sensational headlines, and single-cause explanations; include help-seeking information.
- Link to this entry’s evidence limits and distinguish contributor wording from analyst interpretation.
Established meaning — English
Unable or unfit to work; of an object, out of working order or unserviceable. [BTHLEX09; BTHLEX10]
Established meaning — Bengali
কাজে অক্ষম বা কাজের উপযোগিতা নেই এমন; বস্তুর ক্ষেত্রে ব্যবহার অযোগ্য। [BTHLEX09; BTHLEX10]
Context of use
Asked whether mental-health work causes pressure, the speaker redirects the explanation to his own alleged affliction.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
The speaker says he has been rendered incapacitated and is gradually counteracting the alleged ban. Elsewhere he reports difficulty walking, but a shared cause is not established.
Attributed origins
The causal attribution to ban is the speaker’s. No independent account confirms a perpetrator, mechanism or causal connection.
Variation and visualization
করা is a causative construction around the adjective. The supplied English adds weakness and recovery language where the Bangla describes কাটতে / কাটতেসি.
What is uncertain
Do not treat the person as worthless, infer depression or neurological disease, validate sorcery, or attach all longstanding mobility/work problems to the recent claimed event.
Commonness and evidence limits
One self-description in OCT05-a source record, already indexed under S12. Not a new interview or evidence that the explanation is generally shared.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
অক্ষম — Functional inability only; no general judgement of human worth.
Antonyms and contrasts
No exact local antonym established. Contextual contrasts do not establish a universal lexical opposite.
Across languages
English: incapacitated / disabled — Unable to carry out work or function. Functional gloss only; not a certified disability category or an assertion about cause. [BTHLEX09]
সাক্ষাৎকার গ্রহণকারী: আচ্ছা, ঠিক আছে। আপনি কি এই কাজে কোনো মানসিক চাপ অনুভব করেন? এই কাজটা করতে গিয়ে আমার খুব চাপ লাগতেসে?
অংশগ্রহণকারী: চাপ লাগতেসে মানে, আমারে কিছুদিন আগে বান মারসিলো, বান মারার পর থেকেই মনে করেন ইয়া থাকেনা। আমার অকেজো করসে, সামান্য লইসি কাটতে, কাটতেসি আস্তে আস্তে।
All evidence IDs: E2216; E1375; E2217; E2218
Perspectives from different contexts
Perspectives are shown side by side. Similarity does not mean equivalence. No one perspective speaks for an entire culture.